Johan Seijsing is the winner of Skolar Award 2017!

Seijsing's groundbreaking research digs into tackling antibiotic resistence with enzymes. He proposes to do to use enzymes found in nature as a novel treatment against bacterial infections. Let's give a round of applause to the winner!

Without efficient antibiotics small infections can develop into life threatening conditions. The idea of Seijsing’s proposal is to find out if it is possible to use enzymes found in nature as a novel treatment against bacterial infections.

To turn this idea into action Seijsing and his colleagues will create a large library of different enzyme variants on tiny chips and test their ability to target for example several flesh eating bacteria.

Seijsing is at a loss for words. “I didn’t think I was going to win. The other pitches were so good.”

“With this money I can continue doing this research and start putting the machine for creating the enzyme library together and engineering these enzymes. The goal is to get some good research out”.